″ It is difficult to see how unguided evolution would give humans like Tina epistemic access to normative reasons. ”
Not sure if I’m misunderstanding something, but couldn’t unguided evolution give us general all-purpose reasoning, and then that could be used to give Tina epistemic access to at least enough rationale to guide her actions?
Agreed that unguided evolution might give us generally reliable cognitive faculties. However, there is no obvious story we can give for how our cognitive faculties would have access to moral facts (if they exist). Moral facts don’t interact with the world in a way that gives humans the way to ascertain them. They’re not like visual data where reflected/emitted photons can be picked up by our eyes. So it’s not clear how information about them would enter into our cognitive system?
I’d be interested if you have thoughts on a mechanism whereby information about moral facts could enter our cognitive systems?
″ It is difficult to see how unguided evolution would give humans like Tina epistemic access to normative reasons. ”
Not sure if I’m misunderstanding something, but couldn’t unguided evolution give us general all-purpose reasoning, and then that could be used to give Tina epistemic access to at least enough rationale to guide her actions?
Agreed that unguided evolution might give us generally reliable cognitive faculties. However, there is no obvious story we can give for how our cognitive faculties would have access to moral facts (if they exist). Moral facts don’t interact with the world in a way that gives humans the way to ascertain them. They’re not like visual data where reflected/emitted photons can be picked up by our eyes. So it’s not clear how information about them would enter into our cognitive system?
I’d be interested if you have thoughts on a mechanism whereby information about moral facts could enter our cognitive systems?